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Riff McClavin's avatar

You're on fire these days Caitlin; your voice is vital. First Israel, and now this.

For all you Trumpers out there, you can't seriously fight the Deep State when you surround yourself with steaming sacks of Deep State shite. This was merely Trump's version of Hope and Change. Sorry.

President Truman left office deeply regretting his creation of the CIA. What was supposed to be a neutral intelligence gathering clearinghouse to advise the president quickly metastisized into the out of control blob we see today.

Civilian oversight is a joke. On the Intelligence Committee sits the 900 year old establishment icon Dianne Feinstein, who I wouldn't trust to oversee a dog kennel.

Yes, Assange revealed American war crimes, but what I feel really got him in hot water was confirming what nest of worthless liars and con artists Clinton and DNC are. That they then lost to Trump turned their anger white hot.

It's simultaneously depressing and revealing how few journalists stand up for Assange, or even mention him at all. Johnston, Greenwald, Dore, Mate, Blumenthal, among others, are shining exceptions.

We treat war criminals way too nicely in this country; we treat organizations comprised of them the same way, much to our shame as a nation.

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Rebecca Turner's avatar

"the US government making plans to kidnap, rendition and assassinate a journalist for telling the truth is so incomprehensibly evil that it causes too much cognitive dissonance for people to really take in"

I'm not sure there isn't another reason that perhaps is more prevalent: that anything the US government does is regarded by the corporate media and by many ordinary people in the USA and here in the UK as automatically on the side of the angels. That means anything at all, no matter how invidious. That's US exceptionalism in action: "going to the dark side" is fine if the US/UK does it, but anything good done by China - such as damming Western rentier investors' free money river, or acting effectively against the pandemic - is regarded as heinous.

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